US Storm Chasing 2011

[Tornado Tim]

Just watched the first Episode of Season 5 of storm chasers, covering the outbreak of April 27.

It still shocks me of the shear amount of tornadoes that were on the ground at the same time.
Very good footage of the tornadoes that occurred in Mississippi.

[03Stormchaser]

Your quick, bet me by a couple minutes!

[NZstorm]

The observed upper air sounding from Birmingham, central Alabama on April 27th 6pm. An incredible sounding. The CAPE is 2944 but its the wind fields that were amazing.

[tgsnoopy]

Is that 85 to 90 knots or are they using some other scale?

[NZstorm]

Is that 85 to 90 knots or are they using some other scale?

The soundings always show knots. There is a SSW low level jet steam undercutting a WSW upper level jet. That cross over of the winds is what creates supercells/tornadoes.

[Tornado Tim]

Watched the next episode of storm chasers, they seem to be flipping the dates around, this time is the events on April 22.

[03Stormchaser]

Cheap flights to the states atm:
http://www.airnewzealand.co.nz/30-off-to-usa

[tgsnoopy]

I so like this seasons Storm Chasers - Without Josh, the new format concentrating on Dominator, TIV & Twistex is a considerable improvement.

[03Stormchaser]

Agreed, much better format than previous seasons. Only oddity is what Tim alluded to, the dates of the chases so far, I guess most people dont care but for those that follow weather it seem very strange.

[tgsnoopy]

Doh, I haven't yet found a source for Stormchasers S05E03 in 720p that doesn't want money or details I'm not prepared to give. SD it is.

[tgsnoopy]

Debut of Dominator 2

[Richard]

what a machine didn't say any thing about the windows which was a weakness last year when it smashed,ya wonder if they don't use bullet proof glass,or have they??

[tgsnoopy]

what a machine didn't say any thing about the windows which was a weakness last year when it smashed,ya wonder if they don't use bullet proof glass,or have they??

On that occasion the lexan(?) Bullet Proof glass had too much wind pressure on it when he tried to put it up and it wouldn't come up. Subsequently you saw the normal car window implode.

[Richard]

what a machine didn't say any thing about the windows which was a weakness last year when it smashed,ya wonder if they don't use bullet proof glass,or have they??

On that occasion the lexan(?) Bullet Proof glass had too much wind pressure on it when he tried to put it up and it wouldn't come up. Subsequently you saw the normal car window implode.

Oh ok is that what happened was it

[tgsnoopy]

Yeah, the adverts showing the window breaking are frequent, but the actual event showed quite clearly the attempts to get the outer up, but it got stuck.

[Tornado Tim]

The latest Show demonstrates that Reed is actually quite an a-hole when it comes to differences of opinion.

Kicking Joel out of the car is quite low.......

[jamie]

The latest Show demonstrates that Reed is actually quite an a-hole when it comes to differences of opinion.

Kicking Joel out of the car is quite low.......

he isnt the most loved person on the road in the storm chasers community from what i encountered first hand.

[Manukau heads obs]

but he does get the goods, yes?

[NZstorm]

SPC have a severe risk for western Oklahoma Texas tomorrow.

ALL FACETS OF SEVERE WEATHER
WILL BE POSSIBLE...INCLUDING LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND
TORNADOES...INCLUDING RISKS FOR A STRONG TORNADO GIVEN THE
INCREASINGLY LARGE/ELONGATED HODOGRAPHS THAT ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE
WARM SECTOR BY MONDAY AFTERNOON/NIGHT.

A bit unusual to see that prediction for Oklahoma in November. That'll get the storm chasers out.

[jamie]

but he does get the goods, yes?

no doubt he gets them. i think its the way he goes about getting the goods that gets up peoples noses.

[NZstorm]

The 1995 movie 'Twister' predicted the future of storm chasing, with a team chasing for the money.

[bmo]

Tornado on the ground live in Oklahoma: http://www.news9.com/Global/category.as ... annerId=15 Already destroyed the police station

[Manukau heads obs]

add to that earthquakes in OK as well

[tgsnoopy]

Tornado on the ground live in Oklahoma: http://www.news9.com/Global/category.as ... annerId=15 Already destroyed the police station

TIV got an intercept on it! They'd be stoked at this time of the year.

[Tornado Tim]

D2 got one too:

Andys car (the one that flipped, was caused by his rear axil breaking)